On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:22:21 -0400 (EDT)
daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
> On 27 Jun 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:02, J. Craig Woods wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure where the Toddmeister is going with the .procmailrc file.
> > > I am running boxes from lmdk 7.2 through 8.2, and no such file is
> > > found in any user's home directory. I hasten to add that procmail,
> > > in conjunction with both sendmail and postfix, runs just fine for
> > > every machine on the network. Doing configuration in sendmail.cf
> > > is like learning a new language. darC, any reason for sendmail
> > > over postfix? What distro of linux is on this machine?
> >
> > > drjung
> >
>
> drjung,
>
> the macine I'm running sendmail on is a Linux Mandrake 8.2 box.
>
> actually, I had been running Postfix for quite a while, until recently
> it started doing some very strange things. it was very likely an
> operator error, but try as I might I just couldn't get things
> straightened out. So, I went back to Sendmail. the problem that I had
> outlined earlier was a problem I noticed only in versions after 8.9.x
> of Sendmail. especially the 8.11 that came with Mandrake 8.2. there's
> appears to be a nasty little demon in the package somewhere that
> causes the "cannot create transcript - permission denied" error.
>
> as I posted previously the one way I found to deal with this
> temporarily at first was to chmod the /var/spool/mqueue dir to 777. a
> little later in the day I realized that the user who "was" able to
> send with no trouble wasn't calling the smtp by name, rather by IP
> address. so, I changed the perms of the mqueue back to their original
> state and all is well again.
>
> still...I'm very curious as to what and why this happens with this
> version of sendmail?
>
> --
Dark,
This is a stab in the dark, (pun not intended) but I am under the
impression that Sendmail has been doing a lot to "tighten up" the daemon
so that it is more difficult for people to "accidentally" create a relay
for spammers. Is it possible that reverse lookup is bitting you on
this? In other words, it can do a reverse on the IP number but not on
the name? Just a thought, however infantile it may be. I still had it
all on my own. *grin*
James
> daRmaTTeR
>
> R L U: #186492
> When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the
> Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!"
>
>
>
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